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We 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.840 were just talking before the show, you know, if if 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.120 the ratings start struggling or anything like that would happen, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.360 maybe we'll bring in like a kid, was an idea, 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.720 like a precocious child, to try to boost boost the ratings. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.760 If you if you are a listener of the show 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.039 and then out of nowhere, a five year old girl 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.920 shows up sitting in one of our chairs. Just know, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.040 just like on television, when a precocious child shows up 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.400 in like season eight to a desperate attempt to liven 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.600 up the scene, we might go that same route. In fact, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.480 we're already kicking around ideas for an open audition, perhaps 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.200 so we don't need kids. We got a lot of 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.920 NFL games, some good ones today. Um wait, this is a 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:01.560 a little too on the nose to Greg. You were 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.000 trying to pivot out of that fast. Well, I'm just 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.000 I wanna Are you afraid that your chair will be 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.400 filled by the precosive child? Maybe your own daughter? I 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.200 feel like the candidate here. She definitely has a big vocabulary, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.320 feel like she would do very well. Uh if we 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.080 had to replace a Rosenthal at least anyway, we don't 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.400 plan to do that. In fact, it's just Greg and 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.919 I from the from the main team and shook his happy. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.519 We're very happy to have Nick here to help us out. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.720 Um Mark Sessler was in, Is it Carson CALIFORNI no, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.720 it's uh. Where is the stub Hub Center? Carson? Yeah, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.920 Carson California checking out the StubHub Center and he's writing 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.399 up a piece that you'll be able to check out, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.120 I believe. Monday morning on NFL dot com, west actually 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.359 helped out on the website writing some articles, which is 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.880 another positive step for Chris Westling is he's inching his 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.560 way back toward the studio here and we can't wait 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.600 to get get him back. But for now, we uh, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.280 we go on and a lot to get to Week 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.320 two of the NFL season, A flagship show of course, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.680 presented by Head and Shoulders, and one just one note 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.280 before we get into the games, because we've got so 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.519 much to get to. Can't mess around here. I cannot 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.560 mess around. But I do want to make an announcement. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.359 I just spent two minutes talking about a child possibly 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.040 replacing one of us. But go on, yes, just but 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.880 this is an important anounced. In fact, I would go 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.200 as far as saying it's a breaking news. Mm hmm. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:30.800 That's how I mean, that's what I'm talking about. The 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.240 CBS program Scorpion. But if you've been wondering where it's 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.120 been in the commercials on CBS, UH premiers next Monday, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.000 septem Easter. There you go. You didn't think that was 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.360 worth it? No, for a show that we spent three 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.000 minutes talking about downstairs, and we all we everyone in 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.040 the room thought the show was Scorpion called Scorpio, and 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.480 no one, no one corrected. I was aware. I was aware, 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.000 but I was playing dumb because I didn't want to 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.960 feel over eager about my knowledge of the show. Um, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.520 I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure I was supposed to. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.320 I was supposed to watch it, but I didn't get 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.040 I haven't gotten to it yet, but I just know 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.640 that the premiers next Monday. Too many games to get to. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.040 We gotta get on Greg's ancy. So I know I 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.760 have to get the show going. So let's start. Uh heck, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.839 let's start in Denver. Simeon under center, play fakes to nobody, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:27.880 throws the pass to the Denver play fakes to nobody. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.080 I feel like that's that's surprising that that work anyway. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.720 The Denver Broncos looked like they're for real. Trevor Simeon 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.960 through four more touchdown passes and the Broncos No fly 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.159 Zone listen. I like Rocky Mountain Avalanche. I'm on record 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.600 on that. Maybe something different, but for now, No Fly 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.279 Zone carries on. But it lived up to its reputation 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.640 and a decisive heck of blowouten win over the Dallas Cowboys. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.040 Greg nobody was talking about the Broncos this summer, but 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.720 I think people should be talking now. They should be 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.960 and uh, you know, half tag team. Trev is feeling 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.320 pretty good right about now. I was saying, we don't 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.479 know what Trevor simeons ceiling is. Oh yeah, at least 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.839 Clay is thrown it out there has a team trip. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.799 But as much as I want to boost up Trevor 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.799 Simeon for throwing four touchdowns and having a very strong 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.960 game overall, to me, the story was the running game. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.040 When you watch C. J. Anderson and it's the healthy, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.240 informed C. G Anderson and then suddenly you have Jamal 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.839 Charles coming off the bench. The Broncos had the dominant 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.039 running game, and the Broncos run defense, which was a 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.640 mess last year, absolutely stopped Ezekiel Elliott eight yards on 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.520 nine carries. So they've in back to back weeks stopped 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.760 Melvin Gordon cold more or less stopped Ezekiel Elliott cold. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.560 And they're running the ball. They're a much tougher team 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.440 than they were a year ago. And I don't know 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.440 if any team in the NFL has had a better 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.640 two weeks than the Denver Broncos. I was actually surprised 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.719 by the way they played on the ground because, um, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.240 you know, we kind of saw what we were going 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.640 to get out of Jamal Charles in his little preseason 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.800 action in a little bit in Week one, and the 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.719 potential they're from a veteran, but C. G Anderson for me, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.760 was the big question mark. And then he comes out today, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.160 like you said, a d eighteen yards on twenty five attempts, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.680 he's got a touchdown and and you know, any team 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.599 that runs the ball well is usually gonna find success 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.240 and another thirty six yards in a touchdown. He's one 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.200 of those guys, a little like Doug Martin. It you 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.520 just gotta watch Week one or two and it's like, Okay, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.320 which C. G Anderson we get in this year? Is 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.520 it kind of the banged up one is he in shape. No, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.719 he's fully healthy, and he really changes that team, takes 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.560 pressure off of Trevor Simeon, which he's gonna need. They 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.800 lost lost their left tackle, Garrett Bowls today with what 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.160 looked to be a serious injury. That's gonna be a 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.400 problem when this team, if they have that good a 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.280 defense that could a running game, they're gonna be able 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.720 to win games. Greg you said that the Broncos might 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.240 have looked better than any team. I will throw out 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.599 two more teams. They just happened to both play in 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.120 the n f C West. We're gonna get into him 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.520 in more detail later. But the Kansas City Chiefs and 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.400 the Oakland Raiders. The poor charges We're gonna leave them 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.760 out of this office. Is but uh, this is the 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.480 best division football and it could be we're talking an 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.520 epic uh division race that that's absolutely true, But you 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.800 gotta parse the words that I said. I said no 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.599 teams had a better two weeks. The Raiders, You're right, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.400 I would say have looked even better in the Chiefs 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.840 are right there. But considering where the Broncos thought or 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.880 I thought they would be, and just the things that 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.400 have turned out well for them, For instance, Shaq Barrett 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.280 returned to the lineup earlier than expected. People were talking 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.800 how they're so thin on the pass rush. He's been 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.440 their best player through two weeks. He's been great, Shelby Harris, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.320 like they're in their run defense, the fact that they're 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.680 improving what was their weakest parts on the team from 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.880 a year ago, that they're now big time strength and 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.320 to demolished the Cowboys and this is a great Cowboys team. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.520 This was like a Cowboys like performance by the Broncos. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.920 The Cowboys not being able to even hang in this game. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.800 This is simply a performance who did not see all 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.960 last year, And we talked about in the offseason it 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.160 would be hard to match what they did last year. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.840 And I'm not saying the Cowboys are now in trouble. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.320 The Broncos might be actually a very good team, although 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.240 I will add the Broncos started what four and oh 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.760 last year as well, so we should get too excited 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.480 about Denver ever, But I don't know. Like I I 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.480 thought that this was a big game for Dak Prescott. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.160 I thought a good test for him, a guy that 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.200 I was saying going into the game, how will he 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.720 fair against the great defense on the road. He hasn't 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.400 maybe gotten enough love, which I thought was strange considering 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.360 he's a Dallas quarterback. He wasn't ready for that defense. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.960 And yeah, Zeke Elliott, I mean, he did not have 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.960 any games like this last season that I remember. This 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.480 is just a totally new look for the Cowboys. Also, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.560 don't recall a Cowboys game in which Dak Prescott was 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.200 forced to throw the ball fifty time, but it's not 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.640 the formula. But last week, where they won comfortably, they 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.480 threw it, I believe, you know, thirty nine times, and 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.480 they did not run the ball nearly as like they 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.240 went out with and they tried to spread it out, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.520 and I think he made good decisions last week, didn't 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.240 play as well as he would like, and then this 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.280 game it got away from them early. But they were 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.720 trying to spread the Broncos out and attack the Broncos strength. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.239 It just didn't work. And the Cowboys lost two cornerbacks 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.600 in this game. They were already down to Orlando Scandrick, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.640 so that should be mentioned. I mean, Manny Sanders, who's 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.000 just like the best insane route runner, was putting these 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.400 guys in skates, making them look bad and a lot 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.480 of things went against the Cowboys today. I'm not too 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.920 worried about them. Let's move on. We're on a stunt, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.800 a pastorable left side that's er picked off the forty 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.319 outside of the player inside the fog. Touchstops hamber Boy 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.760 for Robert laying our good friend Jeane decker Hoff. The 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.000 Mike Lennon revenge game went sideways and Jamis Winston through 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.280 for two and four yards and a touchdown to leave 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.600 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an easy, easy win over 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.640 the Chicago Bears. The Bucks looked great after their irma 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.520 forced hiatus, and this is kind of the perfect start 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.959 to their season. H a game where they jumped out 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.520 ahead early and everything seemed to be working. So if 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.560 you were a fan of the Bucks on hard knocks, 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.080 and sometimes it doesn't translate over and the season starts like, Hey, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.760 that's not the team I fell in love with, this 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.520 is basically what exactly you would think how this game 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.000 would go at home. It's not how I thought it 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.280 would go. After the Bears played very frisky last week 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.520 against Atlanta, I thought they would be a tough team 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.079 to deal with, but it was Tampa's defense which I 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.040 honestly wasn't sure what we're gonna get out of Tampa's 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.920 defense this you're going into this season. I think maybe 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.600 they got a little too much hype last year, and 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.600 yet in this game it looked like a different Lavonte 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.520 David Kendall beckwith who's a rookie, had a big game, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.320 h Kwan Alexander. They forced three Mike Glennon turnovers in 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.640 the first half alone, to the point where Jamis Winston 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.440 and the box offense didn't really have to do too much. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.120 They they ended up being able to sit on that 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.560 lead even without Doug Martin. Yeah, you know, just like 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.600 you don't want Dak Prescott really any quarterback throwing fifty times, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.440 asking when Mike Glennon is throwing about forty five times, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.320 you know you're in a bad way. And when you 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.720 have no Russian game. Tree Cohen, who had of course 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.680 the huge breakout game last week's seven carrics for thirteen yards. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.000 He did have a bunch of catches, but they really 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.319 didn't get any anything explosive out of him. Jordan and 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.160 Harrod Howard nine carries for seven yards, So that's sixteen 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.719 carries for twenty yards, and that is not going to 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.280 get it done. That's just over one yard per carry. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.560 For all your math wizards at home, I don't know. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.880 I had four yards a carry in my head. So 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.959 thank you for correcting me on that. I think with 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.040 this Tampa Bay defense, you know, Gregg, you kind of 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.800 said maybe he was a little overhyped. I thought the 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.480 only weakness that they had was in the back end 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.680 was at safety. And then they went out and fixed 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.440 it by getting TJ. Ward, who kind of fell into 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.960 their laps, and then they've got I'm not saying overhyped 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.000 was strong. I didn't know what they were getting a 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.439 lot of hype, and I just didn't know what you 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.560 I'm gonna see out of this. It's a Mike Smith defense. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.480 Usually it's like his it's like his footwear. It doesn't 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.880 really get me going in the morning. Uh is that 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.720 a tennis shot? That's a shot at the Davis. I 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.000 thought you were gonna hit, You're gonna hit. Shook what 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.440 you hit me with and make up parts parse words? 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.360 Commented banged me with a parse words. I'm still recovering. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.040 I'm reeling off, so I gotta parse everyone's words in here. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.920 I'm just saying that I was saying that. I wasn't 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.800 saying they were the best even the NFL. They just 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.240 had the best two weeks. But I'm saying those other 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.640 teams had a good, damn damn two weeks. Also, the 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.599 Raiders are a fair point. I don't know if I 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.600 can argue with you on that anyway, And do we think, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.360 you know, Mike Lennon, obviously they're probably overmatching this game. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.880 And now they're owing to Uh, don't Mitchell, don't call 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.880 me Mitch Trobiskie. The whispers are gonna start getting louder. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.360 What do you think? I mean, I think you kind 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.800 of have to give him the benefit of doubt here 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.880 because the Buccaneers have a sneaky good pass rush, and 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.720 that's kind of the point I was kind of leaning 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.120 toward there, or working toward. And I don't necessarily think 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.320 it's on Mike Glennon. However, I don't think that team 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.480 is also the best team around him. And and at 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.840 the same time, maybe this becomes a law season. At 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.120 some point, we're gonna see you this is not a 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.559 team and that can fall behind in games. I mean, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.200 you go to you know, Kendall Wright caught seven passes, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.079 Josh Balamy Cup for Deonte Thompson Cup for I mean, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.760 this is not the Rams trying to come back in games. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.760 No they are not. Greg Let's move forward over the 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.680 little passion Bomber and running Google quick Colder tapers Bread 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:11.199 everybody to the chin shoven Yard picture catch for Ben 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:16.280 and mart tabs. Ben Roethlisberger through two first half touchdown passes, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.160 including that hook up with Martavis Bryant, as the Pittsburgh 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.600 Steelers ease to a nine win over the Vikings at 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 hines Field. You know, they're really trying to bring back 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.840 the mystical quality of hines Field. They said this week. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.240 I didn't know there was a mystical quality. Who said there? 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.160 I think it was Big Ben. They said they want 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.000 to bring back and make hines Field some type of 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.520 special player. It's not exactly Lambo Field, guys. Let's colm down. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.800 But they aren't they a great home team? What am 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.800 I missing? Were they bad last year? So it's just 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.600 like this idea that it was like a supernatural home field. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.200 I don't I don't remember that every being in the case. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.080 Who cares. That's not the point nine win and Minnesota's 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.560 chances of winning This game took a major hit before 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.320 kickoff when it was announced Sam Bradford would be side 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.960 sideline with a knee injury. Uh. That led to four 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.079 more quarters of the old zeuster watching Case Keenum play football, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.040 which you know, speaking of hard knocks Case Keenum last 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.200 year and for the l a Rams hard knock seemed 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.760 like a very nice guy. His wife seemed delightful. I 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.679 hope everything's going well with them family wise, but do 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.680 I really need to see more games with a starting 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.480 quarterback case Keenum. It felt like watching the Rams for 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.280 stretches in this game. So all that goodwill um or excitement, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.560 if you're a Vikings fan, you could still have that 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.600 and just think, okay with Case Keenum. Obviously we're not 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.400 going to move the football. But there is this other 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.760 minor issue is that Mike Zimmer after the game, when 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.040 asked about Bradford's future, he had a knee injury kind 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.320 of popped up in the middle of the week, uh, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.000 and it cost him this game. That there was a 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.960 comment make and I don't have the exact quote, but 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.640 he said something on the lines of he can miss 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.880 one game, he can miss six games, but he'll be fine. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.080 But he'll be fine, And I don't know what that means, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.080 but what I do know is that the Viking season 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.200 is over if this guy misses six weeks. I thought 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.520 the Vikings had a great chance to win this game 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.760 if Bradford was healthy, and the fact that they hung 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.840 with Pittsburgh really through the first half, I would say 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.240 it supports that a little bit that offensively for the 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.880 second straight week, Pittsburgh didn't have to look like Pittsburgh 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.040 to win comfortably in this game. But there's no I 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.360 mean the Vikings. I guess if you're gonna take an L, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.960 you might as well do it in Pittsburgh with case 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.600 keenum like you might. That's a tough game to win anyways. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.280 But this team isn't going anywhere. And it's just sad 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.560 because that literally last week was the high point of 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:35.480 Sam Bradford's NFL career and he didn't even get It's 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.640 more concerning that an injury didn't occur in practice. It 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.160 was just something after the game in terms of swelling, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.000 and it's the it's the knee that's been hurt before, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.520 and that's a major concern. He's in a contract here, yeah, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.160 and he's got a history of knee problems, so this 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.280 shouldn't come as that much of a surprise, but the 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.360 way it was kind of dropped on us mid weekend 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.280 and today and announced that he wasn't gonna play, he 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.200 came as a little bit of a shocker. And here's 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.000 the thing. When you're the Vikings and you have backup 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.480 or the back option last year was Sean Hill before 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.040 you traded for Bradford, and now you have case Keenum. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.320 I mean, anytime you lose, that's the NFL. Though there's 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.920 only so many good backups, like I don't mind them 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.520 having case Keenum. And you have to give some credit 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.480 to the Steelers defense. I know they've played the Shauan 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.720 Kaiser and case Keenum and back to back weeks, but 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.280 we wanted to see their defense played better and more 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.560 consistent and take care of business the last few years. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.800 And they they're getting the pass rush and they've been 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.600 good the first two weeks. And you know, it has 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.920 to kill Teddy Bridgewater, who probably is watching that game 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.240 and taking himself. If my knee was just right, if 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.480 I could have gotten back in a year, this would 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:34.920 have been my chance to get back in the lineup. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.800 But he continues to be out of the picture. And UH, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.000 A couple of the thoughts about this game, UH that 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.200 Martin Martavis Bryant had a nice game and a productive game, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:44.880 and it reminded me a lot of the guy that 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.000 really surprised people and and became one of the most 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.920 explosive players in the league. Uh two years ago. And 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.800 by the way, Steelers fans tweeting at me pipe down, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.840 I didn't say Martavis Bryant was done or anything. They're 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.200 just like what I thought, you said, his career is over. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.760 He was tard like. He was like, he's fine, Let's 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.439 see the old mars. He was targeted four times, he 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.159 had three catches for ninety one yards and that touchdown 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.160 on a day when Antonio Brown was held in check. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.320 He was targeted eleven times, just had five catches for 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.320 sixty two and lev Bell, who just was unable to 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.000 get his numbers. At the end of the day, We're okay, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.520 eighty seven yards, but he needed twenty seven carries and 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.639 a lot of that I could understand. He's what makes 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.160 leve Bell so special is how patient he is. He 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.200 waits for it to open up and then darts and 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.160 it just hasn't opened up yet, so there's a lot 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.399 of dancing and waiting and then everything collapses in and 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.840 I still imagine, imagine that he's going to all uh 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.800 work itself out in another slow game for leve Bell 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.119 and um finally, my final thought on the game Boys 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.919 is uh, just fun watching Big Ben. He he doesn't 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.480 care he just thrown there was one sequence, or he's like, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.960 he just threw a bomb to Antonio Brown incomplete screw 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.639 at third down, throws another bomb to Antonio Brown that 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.840 didn't work either. This guy just throws the ball downhill, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.120 downfield over and over again. And there's just very few 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.320 quarterbacks that that play like Joe Namath in two thousand seventeen, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.000 and it's always fun to watch him. I can tell 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.320 you're definitely enjoying the bomb throwing Big Bend based on 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.360 your tweet. I think I'm going back to that Bell 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.200 point though. It's gonna be one of those seasons for 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.679 him and for Zeke where they kind of work their 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.760 way into uh flourishing for both of them coming off 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.399 of really great years prior, and also Bryant today statistically 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.800 illustrated why we looked at the Steelers is such a 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.520 threat this year is because you have Antonio Brown go 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.480 out and you know catch however many balls for a 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.879 hundred plus yards a week prior then they got to 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.240 try to shut him down. You go to Bryant the 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.840 next game. I mean, they have so many weapons, how 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.520 are you gonna stop that. They're they're gonna get more 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.760 than thirty yards, which is what they had today. They 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.920 have to be worried that t. J. Watt got hurt. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.120 But again, I think this team has a lot of depth. Uh. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.119 They have Bud Dupree having a big game. They have 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.600 Ryan schau Year, they have Cameron Heyward. So even when 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.000 Stefan to It, who's one of their better players, goes down, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.360 this is not a thin team. This is a team 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.760 that can survive some of the injuries that occur over 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.719 the course of the year. You mentioned Bud Dupree, who 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.240 made a big play and then bust out at dance 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.840 that I will get of the name the erotic frog. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.400